Quotes by Barry Barish - Page 1

The first instrument is not the final instrument.
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Instrument
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The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.
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Instruments
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It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.
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Measurements
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The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.
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Detection
Large Scale
Physics
Triumph
Experimental
Gravitational
Waves
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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Equally
Scientific
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It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.
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Nutty
Something New
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I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.
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Bridges
Managers
Time Work People
Work Time People
Time Reading
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It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.
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Obvious
Bends
Demonstrate
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I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.
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Ambivalent
Recognition
Team Effort
Somewhat
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We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable.
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Advanced
Initial
Probable
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In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.
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Gravity
Magnetic
Solid
Searches
Similar
Theoretically
Waves
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It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.
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Climate Change
Depends
Party
Change Believe Political
Change Political Believe
Political Party
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The 4th Concept is welcomed and encouraged. In the end, it's my hope and belief that the best ideas are what will be used in these detectors.
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Best Hope Will
Detector
Encouraged
In The End
Welcomed
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I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.
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Beach
Bike
Exercise
Monica
Santa
Santa Monica
Up And Down
Almost Every Day
Plays
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There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.
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Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prestige
Aura
Spokesman
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I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.
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Another Way
Enormous
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The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
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Distance
Gravity
Shouting
Wave
Predict
Thinking Me People
Sources
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The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises to the government. That is a hard balancing act.
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Balanced
Being Done
Time Government Done
Promises
Schedule
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I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry out fundamental science experiments that could not be done otherwise.
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Continuing
Experiments
Physicist
Science Technology Always
Advances
Attracted
Experimental
Fundamental
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The size of the effect that we measured from the first event, the merging of two black holes, the actual size of the signal was about one thousandth the size of a proton, what it did to our apparatus.
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Holes
Merging
Actual
Apparatus
Black Holes
Event
Measured
Signal
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A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.
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Experiments
Missions
Nasa
Planning
Collaborations
Forming
Retreats
Scientific
Studies
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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
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All The Facts
Biologists
Distorted
Economists
Paying
Physicists
Scientists
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If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.
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Bail
Drawing
Expecting
Sensitivity
Board
Theoretically
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The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.
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Sensitive
Unbeatable
Version
Detector
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The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.
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Distance
Moon
Radiation
Subtle
Width
Altering
Atom
Directly
Gravitational
Waves
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Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I had some talent managing and organizing things - you know, some people are better organizers than others - but why should I reinvent the wheel?
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Presumptuous
Organizing
Everybody Else
Physicists
Reinvent
Reinvent The Wheel
Scientists
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In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.
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Checks
Committed
Dollars
Hundred
Million Dollars
Mistake
Next
Physics
Spending
Structure
Thousand
Balances
Fix
Checks And Balances
Small
Lab
Million
Particle
System
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After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.
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Nebraska
Scholarship
Father Always Never
Females
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Everything we know about the universe is studied by using telescopes or other instruments that look at visible light, infrared, ultraviolet or X-ray - different wavelengths of electromagnetic interactions. Only 4 percent of what's in the universe gives off electromagnetic radiation, so we don't have any handle on the rest.
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Different
Handle
Infrared
Instruments
Light
Percent
Radiation
Universe
Visible
Studied
Electromagnetic
Rest
Look
Gives
Off
Interactions
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When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that convincingly demonstrated that gravitational waves exist.
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Analysis
Collaboration
Collision
Holes
Stellar
Billion
Black Holes
Candidate
Detailed
Event
Gravitational
Identify
Occurred
Reached
Scientific
Signal
Waves
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Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.
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General Relativity
Light
Obscure
Prove
Relativity
Tested
Theory
Day New Every Day
General
Basically
Bend
Itself
Einstein
Every Day
Gravitational
Prediction
Rather
Second
Took
Waves
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It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.
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Constant
Expensive
Structure
Supervision
Hierarchical
Physicists
Softly
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